Subject: Re: PART ONE: Lisp & Education: Re: Norvig's latest paper on Lisp
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:05:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3233617534657692@naggum.net>
* Simon Katz
| A warning:
| I bought a copy (from Global Engineering) a few months ago. I was
| hugely pissed off because it costs something like $400, and:
Complain vociferously. I got a real book, well bound, and very nicely
printed on fairly thin, high-quality, and acid-free paper. Except for the
always poor choice of not overriding Don Knuth's aesthetic taste in fonts, it
is a very nicely formatted text. (Yeah, I also bought the PDF version, which
is a cruel joke. No wonder Common Lisp is not more popular! The stupid ANSI
Catalog does not even list it correctly, so it is very hard to order.)
| Has anyone bought a decent copy recently?
Not recently. I bought mine directly from ANSI. I have received mail to the
effect that Global only does loose-leaf copies and should be avoided, but it
seems hard to do just that given their relationship with ANSI. I also cannot
verify this information except to say that when I bought my first copy of
ANSI C from Global mere weeks after it was published, the front page was a
color copy and the rest was loose-leaf on crappy paper.
If I were in your shoes, I would take this up with ANSI and demand a real
copy for the money you had paid Global.
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